Manfred comments on Akrasic Reasoning - Less Wrong

-4 Post author: MatthewBaker 05 August 2011 08:22PM

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Comment author: Manfred 06 August 2011 02:06:55AM *  2 points [-]

Whatever you want to call this post, I assure you that all the worthwhile bits have already been on LW. Maybe if your tale contained more than "I want to do nice-sounding stuff" it would be almost as interesting to read as those "tips and tricks," or as they are sometimes called, actually going out and doing stuff.

And I mean that. You don't absolutely have to give new information in the text to write a good post. Personal stories can be nice, both as entertainment and because of the information they contain in the subtext. But stories have to be stories. They have to have a beginning and a middle, and sometimes an end. They should probably have a character or two, and these characters should probably actually go out and do stuff.